that was peter king earlier this week out raged by the vote for sandy storm relief funds. republicans postponing the vote because of bias toward their home states. northeast republicans, like king, are a dying breed. back in the 90th congress, that was 1967, 1968, there were 47 in the united states. in today's 113th congress, just 26. can the gop, if it remains increasingly conservative, rural and southern and only appears to care about their own. >> good question. i think it's the chicken and egg answer, which is i don't know. one drives the other drives the other drives the other. initially the republican party became a southern party through the southern strategy pioneered by lee atwater years and years ago. that became kind of self-perpetuating and, of course, state legislatures started turning, republican seats got gerrymandered into safe republican seats. so there are a lot of factors there, but basically we're at a point now where the red states get redder and the blue states get bluer. >> susan, a lot of self-sorting at both ends of the spectrum i think is eugene's